Probably the reason for a laptop would be to let them use it during school. I know I got a lot of use out of my laptop during college in accounting classes and just keeping track of my homework (big plus). Accounting is still being taught in high school AFAIK. It was just so much easier to be able to pull up the teacher's examples while she was talking instead of having to run over to the computer lab and forget half of what she said on the way.
Plus, if the kid's doing his/her homework on the laptop and they forget to print it out before they get to class, if they have the laptop they can just run to the computer lab real quick (or use the printer in class) and print it instead of taking a late penalty.
And, as you mentioned, it can still be used in college and later work.
Why do you make the assumption that optimization != maintainable, readable code? Properly commented and explained, an optimization should be no more difficult to read than any other piece of code (provided it isn't taken care of already through the compiler).
Besides, you're also assuming that the software is on modern, 2Ghz+ machines. Not all software runs on that, especially when you're dealing with imbedded software running on proprietary hardware.
CET is an electronics degree that gives you some programming knowledge. It deals with assembly and low level C, as well as most of the EET knowledge like resistors and stuff.
Network Administration isn't a programming course at all, but deals with CISCO routers and administering a network.
Information technology is a catch-all for future IT managers.
And the one you're missing Computer Information Systems is a pure functional course that teaches you the syntax for 7-8 different languages as well as gives you a little bit of background on everything.
And you're right. There are no Computer Science courses at DeVRY. I'm going back to school (job is paying for it) to go for a Computer Science degree in the hopes that I'll learn more algorithms and theory, because while the functional knowledge will get you a job, it doesn't teach you anything about the benefits of using one sort routine over another.
When you're churning out professional-grade software for a company making millions, being able to identify places where you can optimize your code to be one step above your competition helps.
You're missing something quite simple. Lawmakers like to make new laws. They don't get lots of coverage by enforcing the old laws (that's the Attorney General like Eliot Spitzer). They actually look like they're doing something to ma and pa kettle if they make new shiny laws to protect them from the evils of cybercriminals.
The problem, of course, is going to get worse as long as Windows continues to allow users to run with privileged access by default.
Clarification.
The problem, of course, is going to get worse as long as stupid Windows programmers force you to run in Administrator mode to even run their program when their programs really shouldn't need Administrator privileges in the first place.
I've seen games that require you to run in Administrator mode. The amount of programs out there that automatically assume you're an administrator in combination with inane Windows policies (i.e. regular users can't normally change anything in the registry) forces a user to be an administrator or be bombarded with privilege errors.
Note: runas and program-specific access privileges alleviate the problem somewhat.
There is a bit of a story behind the ultra-hyped AI aspect of the game. Molyneux talked a lot about neural networks and connectionist AI pre-release but actually didn't end up using it. They tried it, but the creatures didn't seem as convincing. So they dumped it in favor of something they thought worked better.
Which was something that I hated about Black and White. There were so many times that I attempted to teach my creature something basic (like...don't eat people, but eat sheep, pigs, etc). Every time I attempted to teach the creature to eat meat, it thought people were meat too.
I kept hearing stories from development how they got their creatures to eat only females, etc, but honestly, I couldn't get past very very broad generalizations even with supposedly "smart" animals like the chimp.
Add that to spells that could only be learned in childhood (or so it seemed) where I would teach the creature to use level 3 lightning and it only ever used level 1 and the shower spells and I felt like the creature wasn't learning at all (it was following templates or trees of knowledge) and only randomly did something that appeared to be "smart".
I haven't tried the game in the above story, but hopefully the soldiers are smarter than the creature was (or can be).
Actually, ATI has been the WORST offender in this category, especially in the 9xx0 series of cards. For a simple example, the Radeon 9000, 9100, 9200 and 9250 are all DirectX 8.1 cards, and are all actually slower revamps of the Radeon 8500. This is contrary to the "9000" series numbering, which at the very least would imply these cards would have *some* defining new features.
True. I was not aware of that series of cards until you pointed it out.
But let's look at your examples, thay have issues too...
A 9600 is worse than a 9700. A 9600 Pro is worse than a 9700.
True, but is a 9600 XT faster than a 9700? The performance is closer than you'd think. IS there really a need for the 9600 XT when the 9700 already exists? ATI sure thought so.
No, the 9600XT performs worse than the 9700.
Clickie!
A 9700 Pro is worse than a 9800, etc.
Not true.
9700 Pro: 325Mhz Core, 620MHz DDR memory.
9800: 310MHz Core, 580Mhz DDR memory.
There was little change in the core between 9700 and 9800, so the clock speeds can be directly compared.
Now admittedly, the 9800 is half a frame above the 9700 Pro, but that could just as easily be within Tom's margin of error considering the 9700 PRO beats the 9800 in several games, again, by only half a frame. Clock speed != better, as the 9800SE has a chipclock of 380 and memory clock of 675 and the 9800SE is a horrible card.
Unfortunately, if you take a look at the rest of the benchmarks in that article (which gives a good idea of all the cards up to that point) the numbers seem to be all over the place with some cards soundly beating others in one bench, and vise versa in another bench. The really wild cards are the 9500 PRO that beat out the 9800 SE on some of the benches and the 9800 SE that seems to be just an abysmal card routinely scoring lower than 9500 and 9600 cards.
This, of course, ignores the extremely annoying lower cost "128-bit" Radeon 9800 cards (which are not well marked), 9600 SE cards that are barely as capable in performance as a 9200, the 9550 series (introduced well after the 9500 was replaced by the 9600).
True.
The 6200 is slower than the 6600.
The 6600 GT is slower than the 6800.
And now, the 7800 is faster than the 6800 Ultra.
What's so confusing here?
If true, its not confusing. I've not paid any attention to recent naming schemes, so this may be a testiment to Nvidia agreeing with me about generational gaps confusing people.
Naw, when I buy a card, sure, I'll read a couple articles and do a little research. When I recommend something to someone I usually don't have time to research anything.
Being naive a few years back, I assumed a MX was the same as the other cards (I was trying to get a good GeForce 2 for my gaming machine) and got burnt. My own fault, I realize, but probably more typical of someone who doesn't know the difference between low end and high end when the model numbers are remarkably similar.
Usually the reason for this is because that person has been burned by one company or the other in the past and have switched. Or, they've had exceptionally good performance from one brand and see others having abysmal performance in the other.
Personally, I'm an ATI fan because back when I was upgrading my computer for the first time I saw how all the GeForce2s were the best cards on the market (at the time VooDoo who I'd used before was in its death throes). I saved my pennies and bought a GeForce2...MX...and found out what a horrible decision that was. That card was actually worse than the card I already had AND the GeForce 1 Ultras!
After kicking myself and eating the cost, I decided that I was never going to buy from a company that made nth generation cards that were worse than nth-1 generation cards.
I normally don't keep track of all the numbering schemes up until around the time that I decide I need a new card, so rather than being confused by marketing lingo, I've stuck with ATI. As far as I know (as in, this might not be the case in the recent past with the new PCI-X cards) ATI's numbering scheme is straightforward. A 9600 is worse than a 9700. A 9600 Pro is worse than a 9700. A 9700 Pro is worse than a 9800, etc.
It also helps when I'm recommending a card to someone. If I tell them to get something ATI and their latest cards are the X800 I can tell them to get an X800. Its much easier than trying to explain to them "Oh, get the 7800GT, not the 7800LT" (or whatever their latest business-class card is for that generation) and less confusing when the clueless gamer (or the gamer's parents, which is more likely) goes to buy the card in question.
Excuse me, but I think I'll stick with my power hungry CRT. By the time I'll have spent enough money to equal the cost of the good LCD + power consumption/time it'll be time to get a new monitor anyway.
Space is a non-issue as well. My desk is big enough that I have room for a CRT as well as using a desk as a writing surface.
Remedy (read: $15,000/yr in support costs) - quoted from here
when there's another product for free. Especially when it sounds like he's working in a small startup that barely has the business to start needing a tracking system.
4) Broadcasted ( as apposed to downloaded ) copyrighted works as content received into a household or to device held by individual person or on that persons property, may not be redistributed outside of that person's household to anyone who does not receive the content though the same service. You may record a instance of copyrighted work for later viewing ( timeshifting ) and distribute a copy along to any person whos household also receives that same broadcast service ( Samaritan clause ). You many not redistribute or resell content recorded from a broadcast service to anyone not receiving that same broadcast service content.
IMO, Internet Radio and other streaming media (videos, music, etc) would fall under Broadcasted as its the same content that comes over a typical broadcast (and you have as much control - i.e. requesting songs, tuning to a specific station, etc) even though the broadcast would technically be downloaded and, if I have digital cable, I'm downloading it from my cable provider on the on demand channels anyway!.
Also, if this were the case, even though I receive Family Guy episodes on Cartoon Network(?) it would mean that I can download them from someone who was kind enough to record it for me in a media that I could readily use.
Slashdot doesn't usually report on stories like this, but when it's two people like this we can't resist. According to an article in Fast Company God and Darl McBride have been spotted dining together several times in a Santa Clara establishment, but the article is rather ambiguous as to whether it's a professional or personal relationship. The pictures circulating on the net make it a litle clearer.
Which is why they allow you to switch to the classic interface. Its just not there by default because some pencil pusher thought the new one was better.
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Probably the reason for a laptop would be to let them use it during school. I know I got a lot of use out of my laptop during college in accounting classes and just keeping track of my homework (big plus). Accounting is still being taught in high school AFAIK. It was just so much easier to be able to pull up the teacher's examples while she was talking instead of having to run over to the computer lab and forget half of what she said on the way.
Plus, if the kid's doing his/her homework on the laptop and they forget to print it out before they get to class, if they have the laptop they can just run to the computer lab real quick (or use the printer in class) and print it instead of taking a late penalty.
And, as you mentioned, it can still be used in college and later work.
Congratulations! You've successfully used the Slashdot Effect to knock a jackass off the internet.
Until next month, that is.
Have you tried *.207.net?
Why do you make the assumption that optimization != maintainable, readable code? Properly commented and explained, an optimization should be no more difficult to read than any other piece of code (provided it isn't taken care of already through the compiler).
Besides, you're also assuming that the software is on modern, 2Ghz+ machines. Not all software runs on that, especially when you're dealing with imbedded software running on proprietary hardware.
And you're right. There are no Computer Science courses at DeVRY. I'm going back to school (job is paying for it) to go for a Computer Science degree in the hopes that I'll learn more algorithms and theory, because while the functional knowledge will get you a job, it doesn't teach you anything about the benefits of using one sort routine over another.
When you're churning out professional-grade software for a company making millions, being able to identify places where you can optimize your code to be one step above your competition helps.
You're missing something quite simple. Lawmakers like to make new laws. They don't get lots of coverage by enforcing the old laws (that's the Attorney General like Eliot Spitzer). They actually look like they're doing something to ma and pa kettle if they make new shiny laws to protect them from the evils of cybercriminals.
The problem, of course, is going to get worse as long as Windows continues to allow users to run with privileged access by default.
Clarification.
The problem, of course, is going to get worse as long as stupid Windows programmers force you to run in Administrator mode to even run their program when their programs really shouldn't need Administrator privileges in the first place.
I've seen games that require you to run in Administrator mode. The amount of programs out there that automatically assume you're an administrator in combination with inane Windows policies (i.e. regular users can't normally change anything in the registry) forces a user to be an administrator or be bombarded with privilege errors.
Note: runas and program-specific access privileges alleviate the problem somewhat.
And of those, the ones that are updated as of now...
Which was something that I hated about Black and White. There were so many times that I attempted to teach my creature something basic (like...don't eat people, but eat sheep, pigs, etc). Every time I attempted to teach the creature to eat meat, it thought people were meat too.
I kept hearing stories from development how they got their creatures to eat only females, etc, but honestly, I couldn't get past very very broad generalizations even with supposedly "smart" animals like the chimp.
Add that to spells that could only be learned in childhood (or so it seemed) where I would teach the creature to use level 3 lightning and it only ever used level 1 and the shower spells and I felt like the creature wasn't learning at all (it was following templates or trees of knowledge) and only randomly did something that appeared to be "smart".
I haven't tried the game in the above story, but hopefully the soldiers are smarter than the creature was (or can be).
Trust The Computer. The Computer is Your Friend.
Ahem. Let me quote myself (Bad taste, I realize).
Does that mean that some chapters are dupes, or just some of the pages?
True. I was not aware of that series of cards until you pointed it out.
No, the 9600XT performs worse than the 9700. Clickie!
Is so true.Now admittedly, the 9800 is half a frame above the 9700 Pro, but that could just as easily be within Tom's margin of error considering the 9700 PRO beats the 9800 in several games, again, by only half a frame. Clock speed != better, as the 9800SE has a chipclock of 380 and memory clock of 675 and the 9800SE is a horrible card.
Unfortunately, if you take a look at the rest of the benchmarks in that article (which gives a good idea of all the cards up to that point) the numbers seem to be all over the place with some cards soundly beating others in one bench, and vise versa in another bench. The really wild cards are the 9500 PRO that beat out the 9800 SE on some of the benches and the 9800 SE that seems to be just an abysmal card routinely scoring lower than 9500 and 9600 cards.
True. If true, its not confusing. I've not paid any attention to recent naming schemes, so this may be a testiment to Nvidia agreeing with me about generational gaps confusing people.Naw, when I buy a card, sure, I'll read a couple articles and do a little research. When I recommend something to someone I usually don't have time to research anything.
Being naive a few years back, I assumed a MX was the same as the other cards (I was trying to get a good GeForce 2 for my gaming machine) and got burnt. My own fault, I realize, but probably more typical of someone who doesn't know the difference between low end and high end when the model numbers are remarkably similar.
Usually the reason for this is because that person has been burned by one company or the other in the past and have switched. Or, they've had exceptionally good performance from one brand and see others having abysmal performance in the other.
Personally, I'm an ATI fan because back when I was upgrading my computer for the first time I saw how all the GeForce2s were the best cards on the market (at the time VooDoo who I'd used before was in its death throes). I saved my pennies and bought a GeForce2...MX...and found out what a horrible decision that was. That card was actually worse than the card I already had AND the GeForce 1 Ultras!
After kicking myself and eating the cost, I decided that I was never going to buy from a company that made nth generation cards that were worse than nth-1 generation cards.
I normally don't keep track of all the numbering schemes up until around the time that I decide I need a new card, so rather than being confused by marketing lingo, I've stuck with ATI. As far as I know (as in, this might not be the case in the recent past with the new PCI-X cards) ATI's numbering scheme is straightforward. A 9600 is worse than a 9700. A 9600 Pro is worse than a 9700. A 9700 Pro is worse than a 9800, etc.
It also helps when I'm recommending a card to someone. If I tell them to get something ATI and their latest cards are the X800 I can tell them to get an X800. Its much easier than trying to explain to them "Oh, get the 7800GT, not the 7800LT" (or whatever their latest business-class card is for that generation) and less confusing when the clueless gamer (or the gamer's parents, which is more likely) goes to buy the card in question.
Erm...
Power consumption vs.
Excuse me, but I think I'll stick with my power hungry CRT. By the time I'll have spent enough money to equal the cost of the good LCD + power consumption/time it'll be time to get a new monitor anyway.
Space is a non-issue as well. My desk is big enough that I have room for a CRT as well as using a desk as a writing surface.
Not only is it imbedded in the OS, but you need IE to use WindowsUpdate.com - it tells you to go download IE6.0 if you try to use FireFox.
Easy enough. It was borrowed.
Usually those are called banks and the police get very upset when someone breaks into them "just to demonstrate its possible."
4) Broadcasted ( as apposed to downloaded ) copyrighted works as content received into a household or to device held by individual person or on that persons property, may not be redistributed outside of that person's household to anyone who does not receive the content though the same service. You may record a instance of copyrighted work for later viewing ( timeshifting ) and distribute a copy along to any person whos household also receives that same broadcast service ( Samaritan clause ). You many not redistribute or resell content recorded from a broadcast service to anyone not receiving that same broadcast service content.
IMO, Internet Radio and other streaming media (videos, music, etc) would fall under Broadcasted as its the same content that comes over a typical broadcast (and you have as much control - i.e. requesting songs, tuning to a specific station, etc) even though the broadcast would technically be downloaded and, if I have digital cable, I'm downloading it from my cable provider on the on demand channels anyway!.
Also, if this were the case, even though I receive Family Guy episodes on Cartoon Network(?) it would mean that I can download them from someone who was kind enough to record it for me in a media that I could readily use.
I'd like some window blinds that opened to sunlight automatically without mechanical components please.
Slashdot doesn't usually report on stories like this, but when it's two people like this we can't resist. According to an article in Fast Company God and Darl McBride have been spotted dining together several times in a Santa Clara establishment, but the article is rather ambiguous as to whether it's a professional or personal relationship. The pictures circulating on the net make it a litle clearer.
Which is why they allow you to switch to the classic interface. Its just not there by default because some pencil pusher thought the new one was better.